a teenaged boy is dead while his family
including his four-year-old sister
narrowly escaped serious injuries after
gunmen attacked them as they slept early
Saturday morning it happened in the
Clarendon community of Juneau Crescent
here's TV Jays Krista Campbell soldiers
patrolling Juneau Crescent just five
minutes outside of the Clarendon capital
of my pen there's no one to detain now
as the persons who committed the
unthinkable inside this house would have
already made their escape by daylight
police say about 12:15 in the wee hours
of Saturday morning a family of four was
asleep inside the back door kicked in
two gunmen entered opened fire then fled
seventeen-year-old earlier on high
school student JaJuan Smith better known
as will was the only fatality his mother
father and four-year-old sister were
also shot they were treated at hospital
and released
investigators do not know what caused
the incident soldiers stopped to talk to
residents but they do not say much some
tell TVJ news that the family was not
involved in any wrongdoing a friend
spoke to TV news off-camera about the 17
year warden of deceased Javon whom he
was with at youth fellowship hours
before the shooting
yeah he's a good you join everybody talk
about him and got Church church home
school that's all so minute speck maybe
I brung something concrete want me to
expect that looking area the distraught
friend of the deceased says upin I've
never I think well free that the economy
but look when I see Mia just me know for
certain things like other parts of
Clarendon Juneau Crescent has been
walked by several violent incidents in
recent times
despite the declaration of a state of
emergency in the parish last September
Christa Campbell TV news